Research Area: Patents on Financial Methods

 Advisor: Professor Mark Lemley

Research Interests

 Intellectual Property Law

 Finance

 Economics

Education

 Stanford Law School, JSD Candidate, 2005-Present

 Stanford Law School, JSM, 2005

 University of Illinois at Chicago, M.B.A., 2003

 Chicago-Kent College of Law, LL.M., 2001

 Univeristà degli Studi di Torino, J.D., 1999

Appointments and Fellowships

 Stanford Law School, 2008-2009, Kauffman Research Fellow

 Stanford Law School, 2007-2008, Research Assistant, Prof. Alan Sykes

 Stanford Law School, 2005-2006, Research Assistant, MediaX project

 Stanford Law School, 2005-2006, Research Assistant, Prof. Laura Beny (Professor of Law
       at University of Michigan Law School and National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
       2005-2006)

Representative Publications

 Geographical Indications: a Discussion of the TRIPS Regulation After the Ministerial Conference
      of Hong Kong, Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review (Summer 2008)

 Is the Use of Patents Promoting the Creation of New Types of Securities?
      Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law (January 2009)

 Is In re Bilski a Déjà Vu? (commentary),
      Stanford Technology Law Review (February 2009)

 In re Bilski: a Conversation with Judge Gajarsa and Judge Rader (in progress)

 The Enforceability of Contracts between Software Agents (in progress)

Conferences and Symposiums

 6th Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Tulane University Law School,
      New Orleans, VA, October 3-4, 2008
      Presented: the Use of Patents Promoting the Creation of New Types of Securities?
      Program website: http://www.law.tulane.edu/uploadedfiles/WIPIP/2008/WIPIP_Schedule20081002.pdf

 8th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School,
       Stanford, CA, August 7-8, 2008
       Presented: Is the Use of Patents Promoting the Creation of New Types of Securities?
       Program website: http://ipscholars.org

 Geographical Indications - Rural Development, the Meaning of Place, and the Implications
       for Trade Talks, Cardozo Law School, New York, NY, October 10, 2005
       Presented: Is Wine the Way? The International Regulation of Geographical Indications

Last updated on 24 February 2009.